"Some people, when confronted with a problem, think 'I know, I'll use regular expressions." Now they have two problems.'" - Jamie Zawinski

"It should be noted that no ethically-trained software engineer would ever consent to write a DestroyBaghdad procedure. Basic professional ethics would instead require him to write a DestroyCity procedure, to which Baghdad could be given as a parameter." - Nathaniel Borenstein

"There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence." - Jeremy S. Anderson

"... one of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs." - Robert Firth

"Saying that Java is nice because it works on all OSs is like saying that anal sex is nice because it works on all genders." - Alanna